Ashish Lama and Ankit Rawal met in a Kathmandu school 18 years ago. Now, having emigrated separately from Nepal, they happen to be working next to each other in Hobart.
abc.net.au/news/nepalese-childhood-friends-reunited-by-chance/101854538Nearly six years after leaving Nepal for a life in Australia, 31-year-old Ashish Lama never imagined he would be working alongside his childhood friend.Two childhood friends who migrated from Nepal separately have by chance been reunited after both landing jobs at the same company in HobartThousands of people have swapped the Himalayas for a life in Tasmania, with the Nepal-born community making up 1.
Not only did the pair find themselves halfway across the world in Hobart — as fate would have it, they both started working for Tasmanian energy retailer Aurora and were even placed on the same team.Neither Ashish nor Ankit has seen their family since they left Nepal, and each of them said it was comforting to work right next door to their childhood friend.
Tasmania's Nepal-born community sits at just over 6,000, or 1.1 per cent of the population, and Nepali is the third most-spoken language at home after English and Mandarin.
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